Liz Atwood talks about the pros and cons of having a kids table at Thanksgiving in this week's Tween Tuesday:

This week families will gather for the Thanksgiving feast, and in many homes the annual ritual brings the question of how to seat the crowds of friends and family members. My own family has grown beyond a single dinner table. This year our gathering includes eight adults and four kids  – two 2-year-olds, a 9-year-old and a 14-year-old.

Websites are filled with decorating and game ideas for the kids’ table, but I’m thinking more about how to sit children of such a wide age range. I remember when I was growing up and we celebrated the holidays at my grandparent’s house, I always looked forward to being old enough to sit at the grownups’ table. But even when I was an adult, I was still sitting at the kids’ table because there were simply too many older family members who had dibs on a place at the dining room table.

Some folks actually prefer the kids’ table to the grownups’ table. I came across a Facebook group devoted just to the notion that sitting at the kids’ table is fun.

There are pros and cons to the kids’ table as this article points out. On the positive side, grownups are more free to talk, kids get to sit with other kids and the adults don’t have to keep reminding their children to watch their manners. On the downside, adults can’t help the kids cut the turkey or pour the gravy and families can’t sit together.

How do you settle the seating arrangements? Are your tweens resentful at being seated with the smaller children? Or is the kids table THE place to be?